said by an anon its good explanation on that site

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Gamespot is owned by CNET, which is a subsidy of CBS Corporation. IGN is a subsidy of News Corp, which owns Fox News. Is anyone surprised?

Most of these gaming "review" sites are geared towards promoting titles from established video game companies(which include Activision, Capcom, Sony Entertainment Software, Bioware, etc) and there is generally no room for smaller businesses(which include Atlus, NISA, Bandai, etc).

Bias towards JRPG? Nothing surprising. We've seen it with the first North American launch of Monster Hunter Portable and how little it sold in the West compared to Japan. We've seen it with Atelier Rorona(a Gust/NISA title like Neptunia) and how it was trashed up by IGN. And now the same is happening with Hyperdimension Neptunia.

My guess on why Hyperdimension Neptunia is currently trashed by these so called "critics":

1.Western fears towards Sexuality--
While some folks in the West have become more open to topics on sexuality, sex is still rings an uncomfortable tone among the mainstream mindset. So naturally, anything having the slightest inch of sexuality is bound to be criticized. No need to look any further, just look at this review and you can easily tell it was judged by its cover.

2.Feminism being misinterpreted--
There was a time when Feminism was a real movement for equality. And time was the early 1920's when Suffragist Genevieve Clark and Margaret Fuller lead the way to women eventually earning the right to vote. Most of today's vocal "feminists" are either ultra-feminazis bent on degrading males or social conservatives.

Females have historically been underrepresented in Western art and sexuality. Take Greece and Rome for example. Quite oftenly ancient sculptures and artwork are modeled after famous Greek/Roman males, often depicted nude while females were generally always clothed.

The only feminists who can see the realities of this world are Sex-positive females, because they know how underrepresented/unappreciattive they truly are.

3. Western/Eastern Cultural clash--

Do I need to say anymore? Just look at 1/4 quarter of the **** inflammatory remarks laid around here and its self-explanatory. The West has pretty much been resistant towards anything from the East. Spirited Away was the only Anime to receive the Emmy nomination, almost communicating a message to the Japanese as if their entertainment/culture is inferior to ours. Quite a sad display in cultural exchanges indeed.

In reality....Reviewers control customer via lies and sell it bad thus Japan gaming industry falling down,more fanboys telling it sucks,and shooter-fan craze

majestix1988

Finally, somebody points out all of those trolls who rip into this game just because it's Japanese

I guess the 70 minutes worth of cutscenes didn't help out much... lolStevo_the_gamer

Fast work on that sig :D and yeah according to gamespot they actually detract from the game

Oh no, i'm gonna have to buy a copy and single handedly save the ps3;)

I love the skybox but there is too much brown and the constant chatter of the a.i. team mates ruins the atmosphere for me. Hopefully this game will have more of those radio broadcasts that Resistance 2 had, I really enjoyed listening to those.

As an owner of both Uncharted 2 and Crysis got to say that screenshot doesn't cut it. Though I think Gears has some potential those Unreal 3 tech demos from a while back looked really impressive. Unreal does foliage now, that's a step forward right there.

I was loving far cry 2, then I figured out the patrols don't stop coming, the enemies take to long to kill, and the missions feel all the same.

Shame I loved the weapon damage system, until all my guns kept breaking in a firefight. :|

Yep, me want but theres something I can't understand, why are all these girls in high school?

I don't see what all the fuss is about, it's just a video game, relax

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